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World of Warcraft Error.

Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010.

  1. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    I downloaded and installed the trial for WoW. But when I tried to auto-patch it, it gave me this "Launcher requires write permissions from ____ directory to successfully patch the game. Please enable write access to the directory using an administrative account. Thing is, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm an administrator. And my directory is C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft Trial.

    Any ideas?
     
    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    navigate to the folder, go into properties and unset read only.

    Also if you've got UAC turn it down or off.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 26, 2010
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  3. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    Now it says I need permissions even though I am an Administrator.
     
    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    set the permissions then, its on the security tab of properties.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 26, 2010
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  5. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    I've been messing around a bit. May I know which to edit? I see like 2 administrators and two OWNERS
     
    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    administrator is the administrator account, administrators is a group, I'm guessing your on a named account (not 'administrator') in the administrators group, so you want the group permissions set to write. Also make sure creator owner has write perms as well.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 26, 2010
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  7. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    I can't tell the difference.

    Administrators (User-PC\Administrators)

    and

    Administrators (User-PC\Administrators)

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    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    creator owner should have full permissions
     
    Loonylion, Jun 26, 2010
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  9. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    I checked allow everything
     
    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    it says creator owner has special permissions, not full control.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 26, 2010
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  11. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    Okay... Apparently, I'm able to change one, but not the other. Their like semi-transparent.

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    Stanley Richards, Jun 26, 2010
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  12. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    Oh NOW I see what happened. Halfway during the update, I got a message saying that Windows blocked something from the updater. Now I can't open the updater...
     
    Stanley Richards, Jun 28, 2010
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